Bitcoin Atom ranks #240 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #1958: 1718 of the 1957 assets ahead of it are not native coins but tokens or claims. A token is issued on a host blockchain rather than running its own; a claim stands for an asset already counted. Of the 2208 non-native assets CoinSpectrum lists above it by market cap, about 78% are tokens, 18% are claims on other assets and 4% are memecoins.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #240 |
| Rank counting claims | #1958 |
| Market capitalisation | $1M |
| Price | $0.0552 |
| Circulating supply | 18,418,931 BCA |
| Maximum supply | 21,000,000 BCA |
| Consensus family | Other |
| Consensus mechanism | — not yet curated |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
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Grade pending. Bitcoin Atom's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | — | group average, 0 of 2 measured |
| Consensus: leader ladder | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Consensus: family ladder | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 4.3 | group average, 3 of 13 measured |
| Sound Money Qualities (6 checks) | — | 2 of 3 points, 3 not yet measured |
| Scarcity: a fixed cap that holds, and a supply near 21 million | 10 | fixed maximum supply of 21 million: supply scale 10, cap 10 |
| Durability: five years or more with no halt, freeze or reversal | – | 17 full years since genesis, record not yet reviewed |
| Fungibility: every unit interchangeable, none the protocol can freeze or set apart | – | |
| Divisibility: the smallest unit worth a cent or less | ✓ | 8 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $5.5e-10 |
| Portability: fees of a cent or less and capacity for real demand | ✗ | typical fee $6e-8; about 12 transactions a second (1.2 on the throughput scale; 5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Verifiability: open-source nodes and checking without a trusted server | – | light clients verify from headers or proofs |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 2.5 | 1 of 5 passed, 1 not yet measured source |
| Whitepaper privacy: keys are not tied to an identity | ✓ | Addresses are hashes of keys users generate themselves; the node checks scripts and signatures, with no identity condition in its consensus rules. |
| UTXO ledger: a new key for each payment, no account linking every coin | – | |
| Network-level privacy: the node hides where a transaction came from (Dandelion++, Tor or I2P, on by default) | ✗ | Bitcoin-derived node relays its own transactions over clearnet by default; Tor (-proxy/-onion) needs user setup and there is no Dandelion. |
| Hidden amounts (confidential transactions, RingCT, shielded pools, Mimblewimble) | ✗ | Transparent UTXO amounts; no confidential-transaction or shielded feature. |
| Hidden sender and receiver (ring signatures or zero-knowledge proofs, one-time or stealth addresses) | ✗ | Transparent addresses; no ring signatures, ZK proofs or stealth addresses. |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 7.1 | average of 3 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | 10 | typical fee $6e-8 |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 1.2 | about 12 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | – | not yet measured |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | – | not yet measured |
| Features (3 checks) | 10 | 2 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Payments safe to accept within seconds | – | |
| Pruned nodes: a full node can validate and drop old history | ✓ | Bitcoin Atom 0.16.2 (Bitcoin Core 0.16 base) keeps -prune. |
| Light clients verify payments from headers or proofs, without a trusted server | ✓ | Bitcoin-style SPV: block headers plus Merkle-branch proofs (BIP37 merkleblock) served by full nodes. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 0 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured |
| Miners paid a day ($1,000 0, $10 million or more 10), 2 points | 0 | not mined |
| Its own hashrate: at least half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined | ✗ | not mined |
| Largest pool or validator under 50% | – | |
| Largest three under 75% | – | |
| More than one maintained client | – | |
| Node software is open source | – | |
| Real on-chain use: 1,000+ transactions a day | – | |
| No 51% attack or deep reorganisation in five years | – | |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 3.3 | 3 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts: scripting for spending conditions | 1 | Bitcoin Core-derived Script with spending conditions only. |
| Multisig and time locks | ✓ | OP_CHECKMULTISIG, OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY and OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY in its script interpreter. |
| Atomic swaps with other chains | ✓ | Script can express HTLCs; Bitcoin Atom was launched around on-chain atomic swaps with Bitcoin. |
| An exchange built into the protocol | ✗ | No exchange in the protocol; swaps are HTLCs arranged by wallet software. |
| Cross-chain messaging the chain verifies itself | ✗ | No cross-chain feature in the protocol beyond HTLCs. |
| Non-fungible tokens | ✗ | No token or NFT type in the protocol. |
| Decentralisation | — | section average, 0 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| No central team (Source) | — | Not yet researched |
| Who can mint (Source) | — | Consensus not yet reviewed |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | — | Not yet researched |
| Supply & Demand | 6.1 | group average |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 2.2 | average of 5 measures |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 1 | 1 exchange |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | 0 | $53 traded in 24 hours; #4026 by volume on the exchanges the site reads (scored on the median day of the last 2, $37) |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | 0 | 0.00% of its market cap a day, median of the last 3 days |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | – | no order book on the nine exchanges read |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | 0 | $1.0M, 0 on a scale of 2.5 points per tenfold |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | 10 | no futures, options or margin on the exchanges read |
| Supply (smaller is better) | 10 | fixed maximum supply of 21 million |
| Record | 10 | group average, 1 of 3 measured |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | — | Not yet reviewed |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 17 full years since genesis. Split from Bitcoin in January 2018 after block 505,887, keeping Bitcoin's ledger: its history runs from Bitcoin's genesis block of 3 January 2009. |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | — | Not yet measured: no commit count and no release research |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have six sections: sound money qualities (six checks: scarcity, durability, fungibility, divisibility, portability, verifiability), privacy (five checks), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) and decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share). Provisional: criteria marked — are not yet measured and are left out of the average. A rating of structure and market depth, not a price forecast or investment advice. How the grade is built · Highest-graded cryptocurrencies.
18,418,931 of a maximum 21,000,000 BCA are in circulation — 87.7% of the total that will ever exist.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
The regulator's position, reported as stated, not CoinSpectrum's. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by a guess.
Bitcoin Atom is #240 among cryptocurrencies and #1958 in the market ranking, which lists wrapped coins, staked derivatives, stablecoins and tokens alongside them. CoinSpectrum counts an asset once, and counts only cryptocurrencies: assets with their own blockchain and their own consensus. A wrapped coin, a staked derivative or a stablecoin is a claim on something already counted; a token, memecoin or otherwise, runs on another chain's blocks. All of them are listed, each in its own section, and none is added to the total. The 1718 places between Bitcoin Atom's two ranks are held by claims and tokens, not by other networks. The methodology sets out the rule and the counting rule argues for it.
The price above is the median of the exchanges the site reads live, checked every minute and cross-checked against a market snapshot (how market data is gathered). The grade is scored on published criteria, each with its source (the method). The site is independent, nothing on it is a paid placement, and its statements are signed (about CoinSpectrum, the manifesto).